fiasco
noun /fiˈæskəʊ/
/fiˈæskəʊ/
(plural fiascos, North American English also fiascoes)
(informal)- something that does not succeed, often in a way that makes people feel embarrassed synonym disaster
- The party was a complete fiasco.
- What a fiasco!
- After the fiasco over the brochures, I decided to take charge of the marketing.
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Italian, literally ‘bottle, flask’, in the phrase far fiasco, literally ‘make a bottle’, figuratively ‘fail in a performance’: the reason for the figurative sense is unexplained.